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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DakuKinguSupaida:
Thanks for replying!

I'm happy to comment about the negatives and my ideas (couldn't care less if they aren't implemented)

But you sir, in two months, your alpha build is brilliant! The negatives are the things that keep me from using this launcher. Other than that. By 1.0.0, I believe it'll be 100% and by 1.5.0 I believe it'll have little optional things.

Things that I noticed today on XPMB:

1. Music sometimes FC the app :L Sometimes, its kinda like a hit or miss

2. GBA folders FC the app as well.

3. Repeateadly tapping R/L to skip song can FC the app

4. Photo/Video's ''External Memory'' sub won't even work at all, hitting camera can FC it.

5. When using ''System Settings'', home button doesn't work (maybe a problem on my side but nothing else exhibits the same effect)

6. ''All Apps'' FC the app. (Maybe it works for you, but on mine it doesn't work.

7. Lack of 'Contacts/Messages'. The best icon for these two would be Message Box for Messages and Friends List for Contacts.

8. SNES sub doesn't even open, GBA and NES do open, but FC. Did I put the ROMs in the wrong place?

9. Camera FCs.

10. No place to change wallpapers yourself, can you please add a shortcut called ''Theme'' with the icon and the shortcut redirects you to live wallpaper picker.

Things that'll make it more like the PS3/PSP's XMB:

1. The loading should be a clock spiraling out of control.

Things that the individual can do to make it more a PS3/PSP:

1. Obviously use the PSP Classic/Original wallpaper.

2. Download PS1/PSP Emulators (No links provided but if you're interested google: PSP - PPSSPP and PS1 - ePSXe or FPSE, I use ePSXe myself)

You're doing a brilliant job, please fix some of the FCs and I'll be happy. I would pay, but, too young, haven't got a CC.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] naruto144a:
This launcher is amazing, I hope that you'll still be working on it :good:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] iRhyiku:
Why do I seem to get a LOT of lag when using this?

the launcher itself is really laggy to a point of unusable :/ Tried Stock GB, NXT2GB, SlimBean and CM9. All really laggy?

Or am I downloading it from the wrong place? Im downloading it from the first post :S
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] naruto144a:
Animations is slow

Sorry for my english
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DakuKinguSupaida:
It's on alpha, so just wait, it'll be perfect soon... soon enough.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gutss:
first of all... thanks for the great work ;)

and sorry for the noob question but where i can get the apk for you launcher?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DakuKinguSupaida:
First page and your*
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Well guys, updated.

I think I have fixed some FC's, improved performance a bit, and maybe added more bugs in the process :p

New feature: Now music submenu plays tracks continuously, fixed FC when re-entering music submenu.

Now it hints if you are missing the required emulator for a game. Sometimes the BG image for the selected ROM does not load.

Yeah, there are some items that causes FC or do nothing at all in the main menu because they're 'hardcoded' and maybe dummy for now, when I finish the menu editing system (after I finally materialize some concept of it, of course :p), you'll be able to add/remove items and categories.

Enjoy!

P.D. I added a wiki (link in OP) that actually just have a page that explains how to add ROMs and metadata to the launcher.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] naruto144a:
well, I hope you can add your own games to the menu because I only use the PSX emulator and games for the Xperia Play.

Launcher looks great, and I hope that in the future will be perfect
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] bidoof:
I'm not the type of person that posts but damn that is awesome. I don't even mind that it's slow. Been waiting for something like this for ages. Bet everyone was.

Can I ask one question though? How did you get your gba games to show like this?:

http://dl.xda-developers.com/attach...8/2/7/5/2/Screenshot_2013-01-27-15-22-01.jpeg

Sorry if it's off topic.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Updated again, moved the downloads to the googlecode page.

- Now music submenu shows album art! If the tracks have one, of course :p

- Improved speed when re-entering music submenu.

I have recently setup a wiki in the googlecode that shows how to add that metadata :)

In the attachments, everyone can see how the music submenu looks now :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DakuKinguSupaida:
I tested the new version, it was a great improvement.

It was greatly improved! I swear to God, this is so good, yet still some issues :L and one problem with the emulators.

First, the problem with the emulator is that I haven't got the correct emulator, I have NES.emu, GBA.emu and SNESoid, if you could provide me with the links to the emulators I need, that'll be great.

Issues:

1. Camera still FCs the app.

2. Getting to the end of your music FCs the app.

Things I'm personally grateful for:

1. Applications is spelled correctly, damn, I really am a grammar Nazi.

Things I need to know to use this app correctly:

1. Where do I put my movies?

2. Where do I put my photos?

3. Where do I put my SNES roms?

4. How do I add a game into the ''Games'' sub if I can do that.

Thank you for actually listening to one of my requests. I am very happy with the app so far, I can see many PS3/PSP addicts switching back to their Xperia Plays for gaming because of this app.

Another unrelated thing, will the Sixaxis/DualShock 3 controller work with the app? I would use this on my tablet.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] abdel12345:
You can use gamekeyboard with it. Someone else tested it and it worked

Fine.

rom: gin2xperia

kernel: doomkernel v2
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Yeah, I managed to reproduce the FC at the end of the music list, for me it happens when pressing R shoulder (next track), If it's not the case, then I suspect that would have something related to it.

I was very lazy, or busy that I forgot to change the procedure used when selecting something in the main menu, so it FC's when opening a non-existent app :p

The emulators that it tries to call for now are GameBoid and NESoid (I remeber reading a thread where they talk about these not being available anymore, but then they've posted a link to download them in that thread, moreover, I found the source code of these emus in sourceforge, as per COPYNG file found inside the apks) but they should be easily found with google

Now that I found that these emulators were opensource, maybe I will be adding them as part of the launcher (maybe as a module or something similar)

Music can be put under the standard android directory, namely /sdcard/Music if you're on stock, this is as I found a way to filter tracks that are no music (like ringtones and the like)

Movies nor Pictures are implemented right now.

Adding/removing items or categories can't be done until I finish the menu editing system, right now they're hardcoded

Maybe when I finish the menu editing system, the picture and movie viewer, the app will enter beta phase, right now it's in an very early alpha stage :p

You can use anything that triggers the XP's Gamepad KeyCodes, but installing it in another device will make it to quit right away because of the device lock that is in place. Mainly because of the optimizations done for the XP.

Thanks for your comments everyone!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DakuKinguSupaida:
Rosen, you're doing a brilliant job at explaining everything and I still have an problem with your launcher, I'm using two pictures for Pokemon Fire Red, the Icon is 256x256, and the cover is 853x480 and they're named correctly with the BG and CV and it doesn't appear and Gameboid FCs (Not your issue but I'm wondering is it my BIOS or my version of the app, if it's the version of the app, could you please give me the correct version?) Sorry for pestering you with all these questions and stuff.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Heh, thanks! :o

XDA has given my phones new aftermarket life, and this is my way to be grateful to the community, even as this is nothing compared to building a full ROM or kernel from source (yeah, I tried these twice, and failed very hard, lol :silly:), mainly because of my free time being very short when not in vacations, so this project is the perfect thing that I can do, as the modifications and testing that I have to do take just a few minutes (at least for me) ;)

I'll love to work for sony, but I'm afraid of the whole 'corporate' thingy heheh :silly:

Yup, I love to code :cool:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Ofej:
Great

It would obviously be more awesome if it was a home launcher and if you made a gingerbread and a jellybean rom (ics would obviously be a bit too slow).

I love your progress so far.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Updated. As always, download in the googlecode page link from the OP.

Fixed FC when trying to change track using L/R shoulders and the list was in the first or last element.

Improved some UI animations (code cleanup)

Implemented fast scroll when using keypad (hold the UP or DOWN key to fast scroll)

Now that music sub is almost perfect, it's time to get working on the menu editing system :p

@Ofej: Yeah, the aim of this project is to be a full home launcher replacement, XMB-style :cool:

Enjoy!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] clivejefferies:
will it include phone and messaging?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
Updating ASAP.

Will give some feedback soon
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CloudShepherd:
Still wont detect any of my music :/
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
I had a similar problem. You'll first need to put all of your music in /sdcard/Music, and then reboot the phone in order to make the app to detect your songs.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Dunno, dont't have any idea how to implement them XMB-style, but for now once I finish the menu editing system, you can put any stock or 3rd party app that do the job wherever you like

About the music, if you want to force android to re-scan media files, you can do so with an app like 'Rescan Media', or umounting/remounting the external card using the settings menu, without the need to reboot.

EDIT:

Wow. this project has advanced so much it almost looks like its original father, except for the image resources... look at the attachment :p
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
Hi RozenTensai!

First of all, thanks for this launcher, it's what a lot of the Xperia Play users wanted! :laugh:

I have come to comment you some ideas and fixes on this great launcher in order to help you make this a great app.

NEEDS TO BE FIXED

1- On the screenshots of the first post, theres a screenshot that shows the launcher like this:

But on my Xperia Play it looks like this:

As you can see, the active icon on my Xperia Play is more on the left, while it should be more on the right, like in PSP's XMB:

2- Clock and battery: two situations.

A- Starting the launcher on horizontal mode: the clock appears correctly on its corner, but when you turn the mobile vertical it disappears a lot of times.

B- Starting the launcher on vertical mode: the clock appears correctly but when you turn to horizontal mode the clock stays on the center.

3- When you use the Playstation controls the icons are a bit slow moving, they take a bit some time to "react" when you press left, right, or X.

4- The icons of the apps look too big:

SOME IDEAS

1- Movement: now you have to touch the icons to move them left or right. I think it would be more comfortable to move the icons left and right by touching the background (like any normal launcher).

2- Look: how about this: (pics made with photoshop)

Horizontal mode:

Vertical mode:

I suggest this organization in vertical mode for a better use of the screen size. And its more comfortable for the hand.

The notifications would appear like in PS3, but instead of on the up-right corner, on the down-right corner because there's more free space. There can appear the updates from Facebook, Twitter, phone calls, SMS... When you click one of the notifications it opens its corresponding app.

3- Suggested options on the future settings menu:

- Being able to change all the icons for the ones you want.

- Possibility to create or delete the "main sections" of the menu (Music, Videos, Games, Settings, etc.) .

- Possibility to create folders with the shortcuts you want.

- Possibility to show or not the status bar. If the status bar is shown, the clock and battery of the laucher should disappear.

- Use the social icon of PS3:

for locating the shortcuts to the comunication apps, like the phone, list of names, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

And more ideas I don't remember.

I have no idea of programming, but I think what I suggested it's not impossible and would help a lot to this launcher.

This can be a big app, don't leave it!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
damn! Really liked your ideas, hopefully some will be implemented in the nearest future =)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
@Miles Wolf:, you have read my mind.

Actually I'm experimenting the layout problems (vertical/horizontal ones) because of the recent GB implementation, so I have lost some functionality and need to handle these layout changes without loosing important objects like mediaplayers and avoid the need to reload everything (because android kills and reload the app so it forces a resource reload if not manually handled) and yep, that's actually how they should be. I'll take into consideration the notification styles, it doesn't look hard to do, but maybe the hardest thing to do (for now, as i've not investigated the issue) is how to catch the notifications from android.

For the icons (and themes in general), i'm reading some wikis and pages about hacking/modifying PS3 themes, and how they work, so we can benefit from the PS3 theme base.

This way look easier to implement rather than creating a new theme format. The hardest part about this, is implementing a complete p3t format parser so the app can use the resources inside them without the need to pre-decompile these themes.

The app submenu is just a copy-paste from GBA/NES submenu, while I implement a proper menu layout editor :p

I think I have fixed the bug that moves the main menu a little over the left, as maybe you have touched some icon that did it, now it correctly centers on the nearest item (I need to rethink how to handle the centering thing, i'll try something new tomorrow, including your idea about handling them like any normal launcher)

Now that I say tomorrow, I have implemented touch in every part of the app, but they're unfinished (the centering issue) so next update will be when I fix this.

Also, I need to update the screenshots, as some (or maybe all :silly:) things changed after the first public dev release

Yeah there are so many ideas that I need to write them down before I forget 'em :p

So much thanks for your comments! :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
Nice work!

I'll for sure use it, but I've installed CM9 on my phone, so if someone could give me the psp's wallpaper's apks...

Thanks in advance ^^
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] tikantz:
And they say this phone is dead??? heh b*^&! please!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] clivejefferies:
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
What??? O___o
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] clivejefferies:
Key lock not on. Did this in pocket.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
Lol xD
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
Any progress my dude?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Yeah, I had a tough and busy week, so I advanced very little. at least fixed the layout issue when rotating the screen, but i'm having problems implementing the touch functionality a bit, it gets crazy sometimes :silly:

After implementing the new layout managing code, it introduced a bug that made the app throw many "IOException: DRM lookup failed" when trying to access the album arts. It was successfully fixed too.

Today my job vacations end so there will be less time to work on it this week :(
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Slothboy:
Hi, I have a Gaming ROM based on NXT LE, could I include this launcher in it?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
The launcher is very unfinished (it's an alpha), I would recommend you to wait some time...
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Updates! At last...

Well, now that almost everything was settled down in my job, I can continue coding :victory:

Here, the first update after some long time :)

Implemented new touch code (now you must flick to move around, still slow because it moves one item a time)

Maybe it got a bit snappier feeling as I changed the key events from occurring when releasing keys to occur when pressing keys.

And, maybe introduced more bugs in the process :p

Now I will start coding the layout editor

Teaser: The publicly available apk still haves the device lock enabled, but I tested another build with my xperia mini and this is what I got: (see the attachments) :p
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sadiq23:
Can we have the download link for this??
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] naruto144a:
Download link in first post
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
yep, they're in the googlecode downloads page (link in first post) so I don't need to re-upload it here and to save space in XDA servers :p
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sadiq23:
Hey I've got problem with this update!...

Lags to much previous update was fine
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Lags? please give more details :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ZN6:
Wow! I wish I have Play:(

Will try on friend's Play.

Thanks.

via Tapatalk.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sadiq23:
It's not smooth nd gives late reaction, I mean the previous version it use to work smoothly nd when ever I press something it used to work fast or reply faster!:(
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] zero26:
Hello great work here!:good:

I was wondering will you eventually add touch support?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
It has touch support... To move the menu touch the icons from left to right.

As I commented few pages back, the movement should be like in the normal launchers, making all the screen usable to move, not only the icons.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] zero26:
Oh Ok thanks for letting know I hadn't actually installed it yet and only read a few pages
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Yeah, the implementation is almost there, it's just that it isn't finished, but it needs to look, in essence, closely to a real XMB in functionality and animations.

Actually (in the latest build), you can flick anywhere and it should work, sometimes it causes FC, and sometimes does weird things, but I'm trying to resolve these problems.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
What have you thought about the icons placement in vertical mode?

Keep the good work!:good::laugh:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Thank you! :D

About the vertical mode you suggested, that's the way to go, the code is there, but I need to write the needed layout code to get it working like it should. Actually it just rotates the icons to match the position (landscape or portrait)

Thanks again for your comments! :good:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sewer56lol:
May I ask you to disable the Xperia Play™ limitation.

I want to use it outside my play once again as once before.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
You you know if you could add a small animation when launching a game just like on te psp? it'ld be fun ^^
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
Hahaha! That would be equally cool and useless. I want it. xD

If this is possible, I would ask for the possibility of disabling this animation.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Megacubo:
It looks awesome
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
Wow, really a great improvment on the stabiliy regarding the latest update. I've only received 1 FC while using this version during the last 3-4 minutes. The music section works very good, I noticed that you fixed the web browser and google search icons as well. From what i can tell, not much is causing FC as with earlier versions. I have tried to recreate these FC, but without any success.

I love the fact that the implementation of touch is almost successful, i can now touch to play music or scroll in the game list etc. and not only in the first section. The touch has to be improved though, due to the fact that the animations aren't smooth and i have problems with the app only scrolling one app/icon at a time. For example, when i swipe to the right fast it only scrolls one icon to the right instead of e.g. scrolling many icons as it usually should.

But overall, I really like this version as it brings much stability and the implementation of touch throughout the entire launcher. For now, what I think this app is lacking is the fact that I can't put any games under the game section. Of course, it's only a matter of time before this is fixed.

If you ever need anyone to test this launcher, contact me =)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
The problem with the touch control is that the app doesn't see the difference between when you press the screen and move a long distance or when you move a short one, it only reads if you touch the screen or not, and these touch now work like if you press the digital pad.

I mean, now if you move the finger to the right (a long or a short distance, the app doesn't see the difference), it will move one icon to the right, like if you press the digital pad to the right one time. So if you want to move three icons to the right you have to move the screen to the right three times, or press three times the digital pad to the right. This should be changed.

RozenTensai, do you speak Spanish? I speak it too and I would like to tell you one idea for the touch implementation, but it would be a bit difficult for me if I have to explain it in English...
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Of course, my friend, if you want, you can do so via PM, because everyone expects everything in english in this forum :D

Claro amigo, si deseas puedes hacerlo mediante un privado, puesto que la gente espera que todo en este foro esté en inglés :D

About the device limitation, I can disable it again just for your testing and viewing pleasure, but the app will still be unsupported on devices other than the xperia play :)

Oh! another thing, I found where to rip the PSP gameboot so, it may come as a future optional feature ;)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
Thanks a lot :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Adizzzle:
Is there any chance other phones will be able to use this..?

Edit: hope to see this for all phones soon.

:beer:"We can't stop here! This is Bat Country":beer:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] AzNTypeR:
Is it possible to make a simpler guide for the METADATA bit as I'm slightly confused..
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Adizzzle:
Still hoping to use this on my GS3...
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] brsingr:
Is there a way you can have the music tab scan /sdcard/music? For some reason none of my file managers like having it as /sdcard/Music :|. Also, what app does the gba run off of? I have gameboid, and when I go to the gba tab it seems to take forever to go through my gba roms to thd point I change back to ADW and try again. Videos aren't found either, probably due to the same thing.

Then again, this launcher doesn't seem to like the COLA stock 2.3.3 cdma nandroid heheh...the camera looks for 3dgallery or w/e that is hehe...I may just hold off on this for awhile, it looks and runs nice apart from this sruff though
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Luxxuor:
Great work on the launcher, i really wonder why no one thought of it earlier :p.

Is it possible to make XPMB launch when the gamepad is slided open? Maybe it is possible to baksmali the xperia launcher and findout what intent is broadcasted when the phone is slided?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] abdel12345:
Is this launcher still being supported because it has great potential and looks amazing but still needs some work
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
Yes, RozenTensai hasn't abandoned this Launcher, but he said he's a bit busy, so let's be patient.